As any runner will attest, and every non-runner has heard, running is part mental. The body can do a lot, yet without the mental will to push forward through neural messages from every muscle in the body screaming “STOP!”, you just aren’t going to discover your full potential. And we’ve all experienced days when simply getting out of […]
Through the Strands
June 28, 2009 By 4 Comments
I was recently perusing the Runner’s World (shouldn’t it be Runners’ World?) website and saw an ad that caught my eye. I clicked on it and discovered a very cool website: Strands.com. It’s an activity tracking and social connection service. Once you set up an account, you can enter in your workouts, running routes, and […]


Five Froggy Fingers
I recently finished reading the incredibly eye-opening and delightfully inspiring book Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall. In it, Chris introduces us to Barefoot Ted, a big man with a big mouth and an equally big heart who used to have terrible foot pains that crippled his running ability. He began to walk without shoes […]